US Patent Issued to Magna Mirrors of America on Aug. 12 for "Vehicular closure opening device using a micro-lens array at closure panel" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,315, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Magna Mirrors of America Inc. (Holland, Mich.).

"Vehicular closure opening device using a micro-lens array at closure panel" was invented by Sethuraman Ravichandran (Aschaffenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular closure panel opening system includes a closure panel handle assembly configured to mount at a closure panel of a vehicle. A projection device is electrically operable to emit light. The light emitted by the projection device projects a three-dimensional (3D) hologram along a handle region of an outer surface of the closure panel. The system, with the 3D hologram pro...